May 31st. 2012

I usually do not repeat something I have sent before. This one is important enough to send not once or twice but weekly if necessary. It has to d with mans failure to be a good steward of Mother Earth. I could add to this list have you sen the family tore apart by a coal dust explosion that could have been prevented? Have you seen the streams that used to provide drinking water covered and destroyed by mountain top removal? Have you watched a National park loose 40 % of it's trees because a coal burning power plant was sending nitric acid into it? I have. That is my local park (The Smokey Mountains) Have you seen the cost of air, water and ocean pollution caused by mans activities? I HAVE! Have you watched the blue sky turn a dirty brownish gray, I have. Have you watched the oceans fish and coral die off, I have. Have you seen the litter and trash alongside the roads, I have. Have you seen the forest raped for profits, I have. Have you seen the sprawl as people try to flee the cities and take the cities with them., I have. Have you seen the birds and animals die off because they have no place to live or nest, I have. Have you felt Mother Earth sob at what we are doing to her, I have. I look in the mirror and see the person who is doing this, I look in the mirror and see the person who can change this, have you? Big Tree 4/10/2011

May 23rd. 2012

Do you eat? So do the animals. Do you sleep? So do the animals. Do you breath? So do the animals. Do you bleed? So do the animals. Do you feel pain? So do the animals. Do you use sex to recreate? So do the animals. Do you suckle your young? So do the animals. Do you feel fear, joy, passion or grief? So do the animals. Are you one with your world? The animals are. Big Tree 5/23/2012

May 22nd. 2012

When you stop thinking me and mine and start thinking our world, our forests, our oceans, our people and our mutual problems.
We owe thinking not of me but of we to the next seven generations. Remember we are caretakers and stewards.
Only then do you begin to gain wisdom.

Big Tree 5/22/2012

May 19th. 2012

Among other things the Great Law of Peace told the tribes to welcome into the longhouse any other tribe that came in peace. It also told them to welcome anyone who sought to trace the roots of peace. It gave a means to make relatives. Where is this being followed today? That was just the first call to bring all the tribes together in a coalition because a single twig snaps but a bundle of twigs can't be broken. Every tribe I know of had making of relatives, ways to treat those who came in peace and so on. We need today a single voice for every tribe, and people. We need today to extend from Pt. Barrow to the tip of S. Turtle Island. We need to speak with one voice for the rights and the treaties that have been forced on us and broken repeatedly by the colonist. We need to work together for peace, social juistice, the rights to conduct our own governmental affairs without colonial supervision or colonial theft of our land, resources and children. We need a dance of unity, of empowerment not just for the First Nations nor the Tribes of North America but for all tribes everywhere, including the tribes of Africa, the Gypsies and the hill tribes and minorities of Asia. I am too old to lead this effort, who will step up. Who will say it's time for the women to speak out, for the elders to stand up and for the warriors to do their duty of protecting the weaker members of society by crating a government big enough and strong enough to protect all of them. Not a Representative government ,that is failing even in the U.S. but a confederation that gives the confederacy power to speak for the tribes to other governments and allow the tribes to govern themselves. We need to say to The United States, Canada or any other colonial power including Mexico, honor the Nations within your midst. We need to start making relatives again, so the tribes will not become so diluted that their identity is lost. We need to say we have ways of peace and honor, learn from us. Come become one of us and we will teach you the ways of peace and honor. No more will we do as you the colonial powers say, but the ways of our people shall guide us. Big Tree 5/19/2012

May 17th. 2012

Every tribe and in reality every person has their own medicine. Every
person has their own connection to Great Mystery/Creator. Every person
needs no other to heal or guide them to what resides within. Remember
prayer is talking to your source and meditaion is listening to the
wisdom that comes from your own connection. Illness means either you are
out of balance within or you have something special to accomplish that
requires you to know the suffering of others. Either way once you have
accomplished what is necessary you can heal yourself. All the medicine
people, doctors or any other healing art does is help you to heal yourself.

Bib Tree 5/17/2012

May 6th. 2012

Today is Sunday, holy to the Christians for some reason. Yesterday was the Sabbath holy to the Jews for some reason. The day before was Friday holy to the Muslims for some reason. among our people everyday is Holy. Everyday is a wholeday to be started by listening to the morning chorus of joyful greetings shared by the birds and other creatures. Started by talking to Great mystery/Creator and taking time to listen to the messages he sends. Being grateful later in the day when he sends additional lessons in the form of people/clouds/ animals/ the wind spirits or even the water spirits to remind you of your humanness and need for something greater. Later when you are ready to fall asleep you ask Great Mystery to help you fall asleep and bring you dreams so you can process that days lessons and take them with you if you choose to go die or use them on the following day. Life is Good Though as one man put it their is no good save god. Big Tree 5/6/2012

May 4th. 2012

We say this religion or that guarantees you access to Heaven. I doubt that very much. The studies of near death shows that every religion encounters what they have been taught. I have crossed over five times. The first time when I was ten. That time I was none religious and just went into a white light. I became part of the light and was pain free, knew something I was unable to bring back and felt rather then heard a voice resonating within "Your purpose has not been served your time has not yet come." Then i found myself waking up to intense pain from major burns over sixty per cent of my body. I will share some of my other experiences in following Elders Wisdom. Since that time I either see or know things before they happen or can feel things others have lived through either in this lifetime or others. No I do not hear voices, nor do I try to see what Is given because nobody should without a request from the people involved. Big Tree 5/4/2012 Please share widely as that is the purpose of sending it.

May 2nd. 2012

Wars do not show the best of civilization, they show man's savagery. Wars do not make for gain of one people by the misfortune of others, they slowly destroy the best of both. Wars are primarily against the women of both sides. It is the women who send their husbands, fathers sons off to war. It is the women who are raped and left hungry, broken in spirit and alone. Let then the women rise up and demand of their men in every nation on earth, No more wars. No more killing for some thing called national interest, which means they have something we want to steal. No more spending our nations riches and lifeblood on winning something that has never produced a winner. War is insanity and the women are the last sane voice left to be heard. Please women of the world demand of your husbands, sons, fathers and friends to promise, "I will make war no more forever." Use the money saved to house, clothe, feed and educate everyone. This from a one time warrior.

( Bob Smith) Big Tree 5/1/2012